摘要
《威尼斯商人》是莎士比亚著名喜剧之一,而剧中的夏洛克更是一个经典形象,被人们一次次的分析。以前,尤其是16世纪,许多人认为夏洛克贪婪、自私、残酷、狡猾,而他的结局正是这部戏剧称为喜剧的一个原因。但是随着时间的发展,人们开始重新认识夏洛克,发现从夏洛克角度看是一个悲剧。夏洛克还有一些以前没被人们发现的特征:聪明、坦诚、勇敢、富有民族精神,这些特征慢慢地被人们发现。另外,论文分析了造成夏洛克悲剧结局的原因。
关键词:夏洛克;宗教;法律;历史;悲剧
Abstract
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedy in the world. While Shylock is a classical figure and analyzed again and again. Before, especially in16th century, many people think Shylock was a greedy, selfish, cruel and so on, and his final result is a reason that this play is called comedy. As times goes by, people begin to re-analyze Shylock. They found when we analyze this play from Shylock’s angle, it is a tragedy. Shylock also has other characters which was not discovered before and gradually accepted now, such as: clever, frank, courageous, rich national spirit. In addition, this paper talk some reasons why Shylock had a tragic result.
Key words: Shylock, Religion, Law, History, Tragedy
Contents
1.2 The Jewish Question Reflected in The Merchant of Venice
2.An Analysis of Shylock’s Characters
2.2 Different Shylock – from another angle
3.The Reasons that Cause Shylock have Diversified Character
3.3 Social and Economic Factors